#brickcentral activity

📷 SEPTEMBER ACTIVITY: “#brickcentral mystery”

The Mysterious Ooze

For the second reminder for this month’s activity, I have created a space scene. On a distant space station, a hardworking technician responds to a support ticket about unusual malfunctions in the lighting and ventilation system. She finds strange slime dripping from the electrical system. What could it possibly be?

As you can see I’m doing a crossover genre with mystery and science fiction here. Is the slime from the supernatural? Space aliens? Supernatural-space aliens? Mystery lends itself to many themes, and can make some fun stories.

At the end of the month, I will pick the winners and select the finalists for the community vote. All entries will be judged based on technical skill and creativity.

📜 RULES:

⚠️ IMPORTANT! Guarantee your entry is seen by posting it on our Discord.👈

🗓️ Only new photos, posted September 2023

🔎 The photo must have a Mystery theme

🧟‍♂️ Community rules still apply, excessive violence not allowed. No dead bodies or blood, but Undead detectives are OK.

🔎 Use the hashtag “#brickcentral mystery” on Tumblr

🔎 Multiple entries are allowed

🗓️ Activity ends on September 28th.

I wish you a creative week,

📷 SEPTEMBER ACTIVITY: “#brickcentral mystery”

The Mystery of the Missing Jewels

For the final reminder for this month’s activity, I have created the classic museum heist: A warning has been sent from museum curators from many parts of the world. Gems in their collections have been verified that they’ve been replaced with fakes, yet no one knows when or by whom they were taken. 

At the end of the month, I will pick the winners and select the finalists for the community vote. All entries will be judged based on technical skill and creativity. 

📜 RULES:

⚠️ IMPORTANT! Guarantee your entry is seen by posting it on our Discord (here).👈 

🗓️ Only new photos, posted September 2023

🔎 The photo must have a Mystery theme

🧟‍♂️ Community rules still apply, excessive violence not allowed. No dead bodies or blood, but Undead detectives are OK. 

🔎 Use the hashtag “#brickcentral mystery” on Tumblr

🔎 Multiple entries are allowed

🗓️ Activity ends on September 28th.

I wish you a creative week,

📷 SEPTEMBER ACTIVITY: #brickcentral mystery

“Elementary, my dear Watson!”

Hello, community!

This month, our activity is #brickcentral mystery, so take out your sleuthing caps and search for clues. There are many ways you can approach this: create a detective or a shadowy suspect, show a clue, have puzzled witnesses, and more! It can be a shadowy noir theme, a humorous puzzler, or a supernatural pirate mystery, etc… surprise me!

At the end of the month, I will pick the winners and select the finalists for the community vote. All entries will be judged based on technical skill and creativity. 

📜 RULES:

⚠️ IMPORTANT! Guarantee your entry is seen by posting it on our Discord.👈 

🗓️ Only new photos, posted September 2023

🔎 The photo must have a Mystery theme

🧟‍♂️ Community rules still apply, excessive violence not allowed. No dead bodies or blood, but Undead detectives are OK. 

🔎 Use the hashtags #brickcentral and #bc_mystery on Instagram

🔎 Use the hashtag “#brickcentral mystery” on Tumblr

🔎 Multiple entries are allowed

🗓️ Activity ends on September 28th.

📷 SEPTEMBER ACTIVITY: “#brickcentral mystery”

Today I give you the first reminder of this month’s theme with The Mystery of the Missing Photographer. On a dark foggy night a photographer was last reported wandering the city streets searching for her next subject. All that was found was her camera and bag, but the photographer herself was nowhere to be seen.

Our September activity is “#brickcentral mystery”, so take out your sleuthing caps and search for clues. There are many ways you can approach this: create a detective or a shadowy suspect, show a clue, have puzzled witnesses, and more! It can be a shadowy noir theme, a humorous puzzler, or a supernatural pirate mystery, etc… surprise me!

At the end of the month, I will pick the winners and select the finalists for the community vote. All entries will be judged based on technical skill and creativity.

📜 RULES:

⚠️ IMPORTANT! Guarantee your entry is seen by posting it on our Discord.👈

🗓️ Only new photos, posted September 2023

🔎 The photo must have a Mystery theme

🧟‍♂️ Community rules still apply, excessive violence not allowed. No dead bodies or blood, but Undead detectives are OK.

🔎 Use the hashtag “#brickcentral mystery” on Tumblr

🔎 Multiple entries are allowed

🗓️ Activity ends on September 28th.

I wish you a creative week,

🏆#BC_MYSTERY WINNER

Hello Community,

The winner of this month’s activity is @alexandrecoelho with his Detective Raven Thorn (here on IG)!

There were quite a few entries that were my top picks, and it was a very tough choice. I chose this particular one because of the multiple layers in which it achieves the mystery theme.  There is a great deal of attention to detail with the characters, the story, lighting, and the miniature building that made this the winning entry. 

Most prominent on first glance is the lighting that mimics the old “film noir” movies, where it is high contrast with heavy shadows to give the mystery feel. I love the use of light here, with the hand crafted miniature blinds to shape the light on the right, what we now call “Shatner lighting” where the figure is mostly dark except for the eyes (which originate in the old mystery films and predate Star Trek), and the lit doorway that frames the second character and draws attention to the miniature file the detective is holding. 

The rustic wood in the background for the many furniture pieces add to the ambience and are also handcrafted. Be sure to visit the original post on Alexandre’s Instagram account so you can see the “behind the scenes” of the tiny details that lurk in the shadowy background.

Thank you all for your wonderful entries! And stay tuned for the Community Vote, where you get to choose your own favorite mystery.